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Goodnight - Keeping warm bedtime

1910,
Goodnight - Keeping warm bedtime
Goodnight - Keeping warm bedtime
Goodnight - Keeping warm bedtime
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Item no
39841
Title
Goodnight - Keeping warm bedtime
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Goodnight'

'Goodnight

and then

quick!

you run
from the comfort of hug and hearth
across chilly bedroom floors

you leap

and snuggle
a fledgling
in a downy nest

warmed by
coppers full of embers
the colour of firelight
the scent of heat on sheets

hot water bottles
rubber-scalded
slurping inside their covers

a plush bear clutched tight
one eye watching out
for pyjama thieves'


By Joan Lennon

Image: Pyjama case, hot water bottle 1970s and bed warming pan c.1910
Date
1910
Location
Museum of Childhood